The University of Plymouth is investing more than £10 million to strengthen its position at the global forefront of agriculture, aquaculture and sustainable food production research and innovation.
A new Centre of Research Excellence in Intelligent and Sustainable Productive Systems (CRISPS) is being created to apply a systems level approach to addressing some of the key challenges of feeding a future global population in excess of 9 billion people.
Over the next five years, the University will considerably expand its work in three complementary and mutually reinforcing themes: production health and welfare, agricultural technology and controlled environments, and soil health.
It will rapidly expand its research capacity, increase the numbers of researchers looking into the issues, train a new generation of researchers through PhDs and MScs, and establish a number of new research facilities across the University campus.
It will also expand the opportunities available to its students, and scale up its collaborations with businesses and policy makers on a regional, national and international level.
The CRISPS centre is being supported with a grant of more than £5.7 from Research England's Expanding Excellence in England (E3) Fund, which is designed to expand small but outstanding research units.
Professor of Ecological Genetics Professor Richard Preziosi, Head of the University's School of Biological and Marine Sciences, will be the new Director of CRISPS.
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